that looks great as-is. my only recommendations? - take that ernie ball sticker off (maybe replace it with a pin-up a la 2008) - replace the pots and get bronco knobs on it - put a black mustang pickup cover on - ROCK also, where's the output jack? what is a "pin up a la 2008" sticker?

you'll regret if you sell it.
you don't have a lot of work on it.
(except if you want to repaint it but it looks great with all the scratches)

i sold too much guitars. some were nice 10 or 15 years ago.

great!

make a video

you're right LP scale, didn't mesure right;
310mm 12th fret to the nut, 24.75 scale

awesome work, can't wait to see it finished

i make it because: - i've already a mustang and i want something atypical between musicmaster and bronco (a half duo sonic) - i like to have a project, find solution, searching - it's cheaper than a RI mustang or a vintage musicmater or a bronco - and 65 mustand doesn't exist in black (except possib...

beautiful work and nice guitars!

I don't understand the talk of the bridge. The gap between the neck heel and bridge is larger than it is on a Mustang because the scale length is longer. It can intonate fine from where it is (assuming it's not been fitted in the wrong place during manufacture which seems very unlikely). The saddle...

You could always damn the holes, and get a top-loading duo sonic bridge from allparts, and just located it where it needs to be to properly intonate. You could also fill the string-through holes with dowels if the bridge plate doesn't cover them. you mean the new squier bridge, the small one? not t...

24.75" versus 24 might not seem like a big difference but you might not be able to get it to intonate without changing the position of the bridge. i've big strings (11 54) on my mustang. I mesured the e from the neck. On the squier musicmaster this distance is the same with the saddle on max. ...

yes i know, not a shortscale.
i ordered a 24inch neck.
and a mustang white pickguard with only one hole for the single neck pickup.

it's 324mm

i checked with my mustang, the bridge doesn't need to be removed if i use big string gauge and put the saddles almost at the max.
but i would prefer to find an original musicmaster bridge or a clone.
i have had a musicmaster, and i intonated correctly, question of strings sizes.

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beautiful!!

my 96' mustang with a wizard pickup (69 clone)






and my musicmaster bass 74' with a precision 51 pickup

Hello i'm new on the forum but not new on shortscale :wink: i recently buy on ebay a squier vista musicmaster; this guitar was only mad during the year 1999. i was disapointed about the neck, not a shortscale! what the fuck for a musicmaster! i don't like the HB but i had in mind to change it. One a...